Oh Crap! I've Been Spammed

I'll apologize to any of you that have seen some pretty nasty trackbacks posted to my blog over the past day. It seems the trackback spammers have found my site and I'm getting blasted.

Having worked at an anti-spam company and using Yahoo mail for many years, I've sort of forgotten what a nuisance spam can be. I really wonder how many of my web site visitors will be interested in "beach voyeur" or "mature galleries" (those were the ones I could actually mention). I suspect very few, but it's a numbers game for those jokers.

I'm currently working with my service provider and should have a fix in the very near term.

And for you anti-spam vendors out there, this is opportunity knocking. The tools used to stop this trackback and comment spam are analogous to SpamAssassin. Open source and very raw. There is definitely room for a commercial version of a sophisticated tool. Now, I'm not going to pay $100k for it, but if it was bundled into my hosting service for a couple of bucks a month I'd be interested. And it's the same technology used to detect email and IM spam.